//------------------------------// // Chapter 9: My precious // Story: Golden-O-Seven, Double Eye // by Trigger_Finger //------------------------------// Fluttershy trotted along to the library. She had picked up all the things she needed to and it was time to pick up Angel. She trotted up to the library doors and knocked. Twilight opened the door, a piece of pizza hanging out of her mouth as she answered looked to her friend with a smile. “Oh…hi Fluttershy” Twilight said as she gulped down the piece of pizza. “Oh hello Twilight… I was just here to” she began but then an explosion from the videogame cut her off. “Gah… Discord you mother bucker” Dash swore and Fluttershy gasped from Dash’s profanity. She quickly zipped into the room then let out an even larger gasp of shock as she saw Angel playing the violent videogame. “ANGEL! How could you?” Fluttershy gasped in horror and Angel gulped as Fluttershy flew over and grabbed the bunny who tried to escape her grasp. Fluttershy looked over to Twilight with disappointed eyes. “Twilight… how could you let poor Angel bunny play that horrid videogame?” Fluttershy asked with disappointment in her voice. “I’m sorry Fluttershy… I didn’t think it was that bad” Twilight replied and Fluttershy’s jaw dropped. “Why would it be okay? How is killing okay?” Fluttershy asked and Twilight realized where she was going with the conversation. “I’m sorry Fluttershy. I should’ve been more responsible” Twilight apologized and Fluttershy forgave her friend before turning to leave but Angel grabbed the floor in an attempt to stay. “Angel, we are leaving. You’ve been a very naughty bunny” Fluttershy said but Angel still put up a fight. As they left the doorway, Angel grabbed the door-frame and held on tightly. He squeaked a plead for the others to help him but they all knew that Fluttershy was right. After Twilight had closed the door they stopped the game and exited to the main menu. They chose 2vs1, with Twilight and Dash facing against Discord. The match began and the duo battled with Discord furiously. The draconequus knew that he’d loose in a head on battle and chose to do a more assassin like approach to the fight. Attacking until his body armour was nearly depleted then quickly fleeing and replenishing his body armour. Dash and Twilight were hard pressed to defeat Discord but they managed to keep the match evened out. Dash was chasing Discord when suddenly his character simply vanished. “Where’d you get off to” Dash muttered and began to look for Discord. She checked the radar but it was no help. She continued to look for his player and soon found herself frustrated as she couldn’t find him. Her eyes glanced over to Discord’s screen, totally by accident, and saw him creeping up behind her. She spun her character around and blasted Discord away. “HEY! Dash did you just… you screen peeker” Discord scowled. Dash gulped. “What’s a screen peeker?” she asked curiously and Discord sighed. “It’s when you look at another pony’s screen to see what they’re doing… it’s like cheating” he told her scornfully. It would’ve been the perfect assassination had she not screen peeked. “Oh… sorry, I didn’t mean to” Dash apologized and Discord gave her a pat on the back then whispered something into Dash’s ear. Dash nodded and they continued playing. Dash regrouped with Twilight and the two began to look for Discord’s character. Twilight spotted Discord and charged him but Dash ducked behind a wall and didn’t support her friend. Twilight was killed as a direct repercussion of Dash’s leaving. “HEY DASH! Why didn’t you help me?” Twilight gasped and both Dash and Discord snickered. A sly smile spread across her face and she found her Cyan friend’s character then blasted her away. “HEY!” Dash exclaimed and now it was Twilight’s turn to snicker. “Oh…I see how it is” Dash chuckled and soon the match just became a death match, with every-pony, and draconequus, for themselves. Soon Spike arrived home, with a few kiss marks on his cheek from the filly known as Scootaloo. Twilight looked over to her young dragon. “Hey Spike… who kissed you?” she asked and Spike blushed as he realized that he had lipstick kiss marks on his cheeks. ‘Scootaloo wears lipstick?’ he thought to himself. “Oh… uhm… Scootaloo” Spike replied timidly. Rainbow Dash lept up. “No way!” she gasped then laughed as she noticed the kiss marks on his face. “Bwa-ha-ha-ha, that’s priceless. Scootaloo and Spike sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I… uhm…” Dash trailed off as she tried to remember how to spell kissing without messing it up. Discord blew away Dash’s character with a grenade launcher round, taking the cyan pegasus’ attention back to the game. Twilight stepped over to Spike and patted him on the shoulder. Spike looked up to Twilight with grateful eyes. “It was Goldenpony… I remembered you playing Goldenpony and how you threw knives… it helped me win the game of darts” Spike told his lavender coloured friend. Twilight gave him a heartwarming smile. The smell of pizza had filled the library and now everything smelt of fresh pizza. Twilight slapped herself in the forehead for forgetting. “Oh yeah shoot… hey Spike, you want some pizza?” Twilight asked and Spike nodded. They both walked over just as the round ended. It wasn’t exactly a good outcome, partially because Dash and Twilight had killed each other so much and team killings didn’t count towards overall score, whereas all of Discord’s kills counted. “Hey Spike wanna have at ‘er?” Dash asked as she offered him a controller but Spike shook his head. “What’s wrong Spike? Chicken?” Dash laughed and began to make taunting chicken noises. “Dash! If Spike doesn’t want to play then” Twilight began but Spike immediately cut her off. “Oh you are so on. But only if we use throwing knives” Spike told her. They all agreed and chose throwing knives as the choice of weaponry with ‘Aztec’ as the map. The group began to play and Spike, although somewhat disturbed about killing his friends, showed extreme skill with the throwing knives, even killing Discord with little effort. “Wow Spike, I do say you are an exceptional combatant. How much do you play?” Discord asked, sure that Spike played on a regular basis. “Not much. This is my second time” Spike replied, resulting in a shocked gasp from the experienced draconequus. They continued to play and Dash managed to kill Spike while he was chasing down Twilight. The group continued to play until 7:45pm, at which time there was a knock at the door. Twilight got up and answered the door, it was Rarity. “Oh hi Rarity. What’s going on?” Twilight asked then realized it was raining and Rarity’s mane had been ‘ruined’. No one inside had noticed the bad weather due to the constant cheering and frustrated groaning as they all played Goldenpony. They had recently switched to automatic weapons so the gunshots also made it a little harder to hear the rain to. “Twilight darling, may I please stay here for the night until this awful weather passes?” Rarity asked and Twilight nodded, leading her friend into the house. “Oh drat” Discord muttered as Dash blasted away Discord with a Klobb. The iconic death music played and Rarity looked over to see the group playing that killing game. She spotted Spike playing it and gasped. “Twilight! You’re not really letting little Spikey play that awful killing game… are you?” Rarity asked in shock and Twilight nodded casually. “Well yeah… I mean… what’s the worst that could happen?” Twilight asked then suddenly there was a THUD on the window and everyone lept up and looked at the window. Angel’s body was against the window, sticking to it somewhat, as he looked into the library to watch the videogame. His body began to slide down the window with a high pitched squelch from his wet body fur rubbing up against the window. As Angel slid down the window he began to gargle, or something “Precious… give me my precious” he gurgled in a high pitched and squeaky voice. Everyone’s face was expressionless and silent as they watched the bunny slid down the window and out of view. Dash broke the silence. “Did… it… just talk?”